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The Savage Nail

@the-savage-nail / the-savage-nail.tumblr.com

At least two of those words are not accurate.
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[checks notifications]

oh god, an actual user found me

…I mean, greetings! Welcome to my little slice of Tumblr.

I was a Tumblr user many years ago—not under this name, of course, but still. When the Great NSFW Purge came down, I shut down my old Tumblr and left the site behind for other places. But at the start of this year, I made a promise to myself that I would start some kind of writing habit and find a place to put it online without telling people I was doing it. I wanted the possibility of being seen without the hassle of doing shit like promoting myself or making others feel somehow obligated to follow me.

I settled on doing a daily haiku as my writing habit. And I chose Tumblr as my platform because, thanks to its tagging and reblogging systems, the chance that I'd eventually be found by an actual user instead of a spambot was always not-zero. (Besides, have you seen some of those other social media places? Shit's weird over there in Birdsite Land.)

Don't expect much more out of me than a daily haiku and the occasional boosted post. I'm not here to be a super-user or follow a hundred different Tumblrs or whatever—this is more a side hobby than anything else.

But damn it, it's my side hobby. 😃

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Animated series about a brave warrior rescuing a princess from a dungeon, except the slaying of the dungeon's overlord and the freeing of the princess happen in the pilot episode. It's then revealed that the brave warrior foolishly neglected to make a map on the way in, and now doesn't remember how they got down there; the remainder of the show concerns the princess and the warrior trying to find their way out of the now-leaderless dungeon, encountering a series of increasingly implausible themed regions on the way, like at one point they stumble into a part of the dungeon that's inexplicably patterned after Revolutionary France or some shit.

(A shocking twist arrives in the second-season cliffhanger with the discovery of what appears to be the warrior's own corpse stuffed into a cold-storage room. However, the series is subsequently cancelled, the scripts for the follow-up episode are lost, and the show's writer cannot be contacted on social media to find out what they'd planned because they've left the animation industry to become a lumberjack, leaving the resolution in the hands of enterprising fanfic authors.)

Is this a fantasy dungeon anime, or is this an anime about the people who got annoyed that the fantasy dungeon anime got cancelled and decided to find the creators and bully them into explaining what the ending was supposed to be?

It's a metafictional series, with episodes of the cartoon interspersed with live action faux-documentary segments about the documentarian trying to find out why the show was cancelled and what happened to its elusive showrunner.

Garth Marenghi's Dungeons & Dungeons

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Hi, Tumblr. It’s Tumblr. We’re working on some things that we want to share with you. 

AI companies are acquiring content across the internet for a variety of purposes in all sorts of ways. There are currently very few regulations giving individuals control over how their content is used by AI platforms. Proposed regulations around the world, like the European Union’s AI Act, would give individuals more control over whether and how their content is utilized by this emerging technology. We support this right regardless of geographic location, so we’re releasing a toggle to opt out of sharing content from your public blogs with third parties, including AI platforms that use this content for model training. We’re also working with partners to ensure you have as much control as possible regarding what content is used.

Here are the important details:

  • We already discourage AI crawlers from gathering content from Tumblr and will continue to do so, save for those with which we partner. 
  • We want to represent all of you on Tumblr and ensure that protections are in place for how your content is used. We are committed to making sure our partners respect those decisions.
  • To opt out of sharing your public blogs’ content with third parties, visit each of your public blogs’ blog settings via the web interface and toggle on the “Prevent third-party sharing” option. 
  • For instructions on how to opt out using the latest version of the app, please visit this Help Center doc. 
  • Please note: If you’ve already chosen to discourage search crawling of your blog in your settings, we’ve automatically enabled the “Prevent third-party sharing” option.

If you have concerns, please read through the Help Center doc linked above and contact us via Support if you still have questions.

Surprisingly, nowhere in this post, does Tumblr explicitly say that they've partnered with OpenAI and Midjourney to let them scrape your content unmitigated unless you opt out.

THE OPTION SHOULD BE TOGGLED OFF BY DEFAULT AND ENABLED BY THE USER. OPT-IN, NOT OPT-OUT.

Forcing within your site's settings that everyone is giving automatic consent until they notice and opt out is fucking unethical. DeviantArt already tried this and got their asses handed to them.

MAKING PEOPLE CONSENT BY DEFAULT AND FORCING THEM TO REVOKE IT IS NOT ETHICAL DATA USAGE.

Scream it from the fucking rooftops until these dumbasses get the picture.

Any option on a service like Tumblr that deals with your data and any third-party handling thereof should always be opt-in. NO EXCEPTIONS, NO EXCUSES.

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The End of the Experiment

And with that last haiku, I have officially managed to write/publish a haiku every day for a full calendar year. I came close to missing a few days, but I managed to squeak some in right under the wire.

And with that, this blog will…pretty much be dormant, really. I may reblog a thing or two here and there, but it'll mostly exist for me to have an account and keep up with various blogs here without needing to bookmark a bunch of accounts in Firefox.

For the few of you who watched this account and liked/reblogged the occasional haiku: Thank you.

And now, the rest…is silence.